The radio station owner formerly known as Clear Channel's morning man on 70 of its country stations Bobby Bones was discussing an Emergency Alert System test interrupting a World Series game and played the EAS tones without permission, on some of his stations setting off phony alerts on other stations in those areas--iHeart has agreed to the fine, a three-year compliance and reporting plan and deleting EAS tone sound effects from their stations' production libraries:
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0519/DOC-333516A1.pdf The FCC has now collected in the last six months a total of $2.5M in fines regarding improper broadcast of the EAS tones from ESPN, Univision and some smaller companies, along now with iHeart, still the nation's biggest station owner. Meanwhile, Bones still has his job. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
